Ed Suominen

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@KimCrayton1 My grandmother left Germany in the mid 1920s, sponsored as a U.S. immigrant by her (closeted, of course) gay brother who had left after WWI ended. She left behind a small boy who grew up to be drafted in Hitler’s army, refused to serve, and was shot by firing squad at age 21. My uncle Kurt Stein.

What’s happening in the U.S. now terrifies me.

Willful ignorance is being surprised to “learn” that many Black folx don’t feel safe around whiteness

Strategic ignorance is choosing to IGNORE the centuries of documented history that justiy those feelings

I believe that #retrocomputing is about more than nostalgia (which is fine on its own, too!).

I believe that it's also about a reaction to the truly sorry state of modern computing. Old computers didn't spy on you, they didn't beg you for micropayments, they just did what they were told. They were tools for work, for learning, for entertainment, not tools for the capitalists to control us even more than they already do.

I also believe that retrocomputing has a future; we are, as a community, more than smart enough to design and build our own new retro-inspired designs, and build for ourselves a computing world worth living in.

This is how you tweet a headline

RT @[email protected]

BREAKING: Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, has filed to run for president again in 2024. https://n.pr/3THqnJM

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1592701068995084290

With midterm losses, Trump's climb to the nomination could be steeper than he'd like

Donald Trump is officially running again, trying to avenge his loss to Joe Biden, even as Trump still refuses to admit he lost. Trump's push to overturn the 2020 outcome helped spark an insurrection.

NPR
BTW, "web3" is bullshit.

This is my home. Photo taken during the Golden Hour last week.

(Testing how well photo uploads work.)